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by sdkmvx 15y ago
If a customer calls up wanting to know their password, I would bet that they are configuring a new modem and that's why the need it. If their modem knows the password, why do they need to know it?
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
Except copyright infringement is a civil matter. Drug usage is (unfortunately) a criminal offense. I'm not aware of any precedent that would make it illegal (in a criminal sense) for one to do something which might cause a third party to su
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> There was a time before SMTP. That is why I mentioned common format (headers + message) and 'mostly' SMTP. But for early email, allowing users to email someone at a different computer wasn't an issue of profit. 'Cloud' companies don't
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
So what is the cloud protocol? I'm not sure this guy even understands what a cloud is. Email messages all look the same (headers, then message) and they were mostly transferred on SMTP. How would anyone possibly interconnect AWS and Rackspa
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My Email Privacy is Worth more than $36 per year(blog.herlein.com)
2 points by sdkmvx 15y ago|0 comments
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> I don't think anybody old enough to care about their personal info really falls for that. I would like to think that, but have you ever tried to read the comments on Sony's blog. They love Sony and I'm sure Sony likes to encourage _th
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
> The unstated but obvious leaning of wikileaks, Assange, and a large portion of the hacker community is towards anarchy be it anarcho-capitalism, crypto-anarchy, some variant. Is it? I'm not 100% sure on Assange, but I've always seen t
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
I never saw anything to suggest that it was, so I believe it simply makes them feel good. Also, undisclosed location is very suspect. How long will it take to traceroute it and find the nearest Level3/other major company node's location, th
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
They say passwords were stolen. This must mean they are not properly hashing passwords with salts stored outside of the database. How many times does this have to happen before people realize that passwords are never to be stored in plainte
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by sdkmvx 15y ago
IBM is still perfectly relevant in the same target market they have been dominating for the last 100 or so years. Selling things to gigantic businesses. This is their name: International _Business_ Machines. IBM stopped selling personal com
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
Not a lawyer, but: Facebook is not profiting off the YouTube links. They profit primarily off your desire to see what your friends post. A few of your friends posting YouTube videos is incidental. The subreddit mentioned does seem more like
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
No. "Sideloading of Third-party Apps" Whatever your opinion of it, Apple has shown time and time again that this will not officially happen. I would be extremely surprised if it were to happen. I am sure some of Apple's devices are sold at
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I was under the impression that both ACTA and TPP were primarily written by the US. In any case, the US is involved, and supporting secret laws is pretty bad for a country that keeps going on about how they supp
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
"The US government, still trying to secure final passage for the drafted-in-secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA)" and "Once again, the chapter was drafted in secret and has been classified for at least four years after negotiat
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
Unless of course you tell them and they consent to it. And if they don't consent to it, tell them you need to do it in writing. Disclaimer: not a lawyer, but you shouldn't be taking legal advice from the internet anyway.
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
Not a lawyer, but I would be very surprised if the law that creates and regulates the lottery doesn't include a clause to make buying tickets by an algorithm illegal or something like it.
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
This is great and all, but I feel like someone should point out that at some level, you need service to your house. In the US at least, AT&T (or some company that was formerly AT&T) owns most of the last-mile wires, so anyone who ca
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
But to know how an amd64-based system works, I don't need to open _this_ laptop (from Apple). I do know how hardware works, and it is important to know how string comparison works and why that would be slow, no matter how far up the abstrac
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Concurrency is easy(armstrongonsoftware.blogspot.com)
11 points by sdkmvx 16y ago|0 comments
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
"All nouns can be verbed, and all verbs can be nouned." (JARGON file). But seriously, this is how language evolves.
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
I saw it as a non-event simply because I already have all of their records (on CD and imported into iTunes). I figured most fans would also have most if not all of their music, so availability on iTunes doesn't change things. Although it do
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
> (Also, how to deal with children is not a good framework for how to deal with adults). Also, how do deal with children is not a good framework for how to deal with slightly older children. These people who treat high-school children (
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
I was thinking about this today. In math class I got bored and started playing with my calculator (TI83) and a friends calculator (TI84). I wrote the same program, essentially x=1 while true print x inc x end w
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by sdkmvx 16y ago
He may have been trying to say "Wow they trust _me_. Why would they trust me with anything?" But when you’re talking to close friends, not millions of people, you tend not to worry so much about phrasing.
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Hallowed Ground(daryllang.com)
1 points by sdkmvx 16y ago|0 comments